With West Indies and India all-square going into the fourth Test in Antigua, we delve into the Wisden Almanack archive to pick out a memorable encounter between the sides. Here we go back to the fourth Test of West Indies' 1974-75 tour of the subcontinent, at Madras Though they were to rule the world of international cricket for more or less the next twenty years, the West Indies side that toured the subcontinent in 1974-75 had a very unfamiliar look about it. Gone were the likes of Garry Sobers and Rohan Kanhai, who had retired the previous April after England's visit to the Caribbean. In their place came unfamiliar names such as Viv Richards and Gordon Greenidge, under a new captain, Clive Lloyd.

India, too, were in a period of transition. Their captain Ajit Wadekar had retired after a disastrous tour of England, and the captaincy returned to the Nawab of Pataudi, who had not been considered for selection since England's visit in 1972-73.

After victory in the Caribbean in 1970-71, India's spinners might have held the psychological edge going into the five-match series, but West Indies quickly established a 2-0 lead. At Bangalore, Greenidge's sensational debut (93 and 107) was capped by some withering strokeplay from Lloyd (163), and Richards weighed in with 192 not out in the second match at Delhi.

Yet India - through Gundappa Viswanath - bounced back with an 85-run in the third Test at Calcutta, and arrived in Madras needing another victory to square the series. It seemed a tall order when Andy Roberts reduced them to 117 for 8 on the first day, but Viswanath was unbowed, and found an unlikely ally in Bishan Bedi.

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Andrew Miller is editorial assistant of Wisden.com.

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